Re: Another W3C strict query

>
> Lets extend the book metaphor again.
......
:-)

For a reference site, i agree - but for a "magazine site" - as mine is - i
wouldn;t put the magazine away, until i've finsihed with it, even if i check
reference books whilst reading it.

However - after suggestions about offering *both* options (assuming my
earlier idea of a "key" gets massaged into an acceptatble, easy-to-use form,
maybe alternate colours and alternate pre-fixes to alt-text)  then i can
offer the user  a choice of *either* opening the reference book in a  new,
*or* the current window.
Which is the approach i currently favour :-)
(Even if it is not consistent - but both "new" and "current" window sites
are very common "on the web'.

> Now, space on my desk is limited. I may decide to open both book X and
book
> Y, or I may decide to close book X and open book Y. That is my choice, and
> I will vary it depending on what I am doing.
But (as has already been said, and i myself until yesterday) - many of us
don't know that the choice of opening a new window is  there - my audience
are casual users, not computer-users.

So i won;t rely on my viewers knowing that option -
Though *I* have now learned it! :-)

thanks -

hilma
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